A Creative Workspace
Atlas provides a creative workspace where you collect material, organize it, and write — all in one project, instead of scattered across several apps that never quite talk to each other. Chapters, research, images, PDFs, web pages, and sketches live side by side, structured the way you think about the work.
Structure That Fits Your Thinking
In Atlas, any document can hold other documents, not just folders. A chapter can keep its own research inside it; a character profile can nest the images that inspired it. Your project ends up shaped by the way you think about it, nested as deep as it needs to go and adaptable as it grows.
Context on Demand
Every document carries more than its text — a synopsis, writing statistics, a heading outline, the links running in and out of it. The Inspector keeps all of it a tap away in a panel beside the editor, and shows only what’s relevant to what you’re looking at: word counts and an outline for writing, items and connections for a canvas, properties for an image or PDF.
Metadata, Tags & Search
Define custom metadata fields — a point-of-view character, a word target, a release date, whatever your project needs — and attach them to any document. Organize with tags that nest into hierarchies as detailed as you like. Then find any of it through full-text search, narrowed with tokens that filter by tag, by metadata, or by what a document contains.
Clip and Collect: Web Clipper & Share Tool
The Web Clipper pulls a page into Atlas as clean, readable Markdown — article text extracted, images pulled out, the navigation and ads left behind — and lets you choose where it lands and what to keep. An additional Share tool goes further: send text, a link, or an image from almost any app straight into your project. However it arrives, captured material becomes a real document you can edit, tag, and link like anything else — not a clipping stranded outside your work.
Start From a Template
Some documents you build again and again — a character profile, a source note, the shell of a new chapter. Save any of them as a template, complete with its tags, metadata, icon, and starting content, and every new document begins fully set up. Less scaffolding, more writing.
A Rich Markdown(ish) Experience
Atlas aims to transform Markdown into a rich writing experience so you can focus on your content and the way you want. See your formatting come alive as you type with headings, emphasis, and more without leaving the simplicity of plain text. Rich text objects like tables, equations, and even images are fully rendered inline; document links update automatically as you rename and reorganize files; and the entire editor adapts to your preferences with customizable themes, typography, and spacing.
Resizable Images, Rich Tables, and More
A Markdown editor that’s familiar, but better with the perfect mix of plain-text and rich objects to create a single editor that you can work in. No need to flip back and forth between a viewer and editor, and no need to write tables, images, LaTeX, or other tedious things by hand.
A Customizable Editor
Powerful theme customization enables you to set up the editor how you would like. Build and share themes with others and import other prebuilt themes from editors like Ulysses.
Powerful Linking
Quickly create automatically updating links between documents to build connections without lifting a finger from your keyboard using the Wiki-Link format. Additionally, links which are connected to other documents update in real-time as their titles change.
Academic Aspirations
Atlas is ready for serious, source-driven writing. Write in LaTeX equations, inline or as blocks, and watch them render as you type. Add footnotes for citations, numbered automatically, and annotations to comment on a passage without disturbing the text. Both collect in the Inspector, making tracking them easy.
An Integrated, Infinite Canvas
Some ideas live in sentences. Others only make sense when you can see them in relation to each other. The Canvas is an infinite space where you arrange anything from your project visually — documents, images, notes, and web pages laid out and connected—and it’s a true peer to the Markdown editor. String a plot, trace a character web, create full-blown visual maps: the shape of your thinking becomes something you can see.
Cards
Place anything on the canvas as a card: a document, an image, a web page, a freeform text label, even a sketch. Cards can show a document’s full content or just its synopsis, so you control how much detail each one carries — a dense working surface or a clean overview, your choice.
Connections
Draw a line between any two cards to make a relationship explicit. Connections carry direction and labels, so a canvas can show not just what’s related but how — a plot thread running through chapters, a character’s ties to others, one idea depending on another. Color and styling let you tell different kinds of relationships apart at a glance.
Pins
Drop pin markers anywhere on the canvas in a range of shapes, icons, and colors. Leave them standalone, or link one to a document so it takes on that document’s identity and opens it with a tap. Handy for maps, story beats, or anything that’s about place.
Live Editing
Cards aren’t static snapshots. Open a document right on the canvas and edit it in place — your spatial view and your writing are the same surface, so you never break focus to make a change. Edit once, and it’s the real document, updated everywhere it appears. Web pages also render in real-time, ensuring you get the latest view.
Interoperability
Atlas’s Canvas supports JSON Canvas, an open format, so you can bring boards in from apps like Obsidian and take them back out. Your spatial work isn’t locked to Atlas any more than your writing is.
Ready For Exporting and Publishing
Atlas empowers you to organize your content in natural, personal ways to help you publish your project: Keep chapters in a draft? Break them into smaller scenes? Need to export pieces as separate documents? The export tool is designed to give you the best of all worlds, from creating PDF to ePub documents that can be imported into Apple Books, Kindle, Kobo, and most any other eReader.
Publishing Partner
When your project is ready to become a book or a document, Atlas gives you polished, professional output support. Export print-ready PDFs, from clean documents to true trade-paperback layouts with chapter breaks and mirrored margins, or build chaptered ePubs that import into Apple Books, Kindle, Kobo, and nearly any reader. Cover art, page size, headers and footers, per-heading typography: the details that make a finished piece look how you imagined.
Content to Take Anywhere
Everything in Atlas leaves in a format that outlives it. Export Markdown with your tags and metadata preserved in YAML frontmatter, ready to drop into any other Markdown tool. Send rich text to a word processor, or take your canvases with you in the open JSON Canvas format. Publish a clean, static HTML site you can self-host or hand off anywhere — no platform, no account, no dependency on Atlas. However it leaves, your work belongs to you, in formats that don’t lock it away.
Design at Export, Not While You Write
Your writing stays clean Markdown, so how it looks is a decision you make at export, separate from the words themselves. Each published format can be styled to taste. Atlas ships polished built-in styles for PDF, ePub, and HTML, and lets you build your own, with control over typography, spacing, margins, and more, then save, share, and reuse them across projects. The built-in Novel PDF style, for instance, lays your chapters out as a trade paperback, with 5×8 pages, mirrored margins for binding, and automatic chapter breaks, without touching a word of the document itself. You can create your own with just a text editor.
Solid Foundations
Sync Without Worries
Keep your sources and inspiration nearby: images, video, webpages, other documents, your own sketches, and whatever else you need to help you build your narrative. Atlas is built to natively sync all of your gathered and created content through iCloud. Start writing on your Mac, snap inspiration from nature on your iPhone camera, save a webpage from Safari while browsing on iPad. All of it comes together without any intervention on your part.
Never Lose a Word
Atlas saves a version every time you do, building a history you can return to anytime. Restore an earlier draft in place, or pull it into a new document so the original stays untouched. And if two devices edit at once, Atlas presents you with both copies to give you a chance to resolve manually so a conflict is a choice, never a loss. History is also merged across devices, letting you know where things happened.
Built Native and Strong
Atlas isn’t a web app in a desktop wrapper. It’s built directly on each platform’s own native tooling, AppKit and UIKit, with purpose-built versions for Mac and iOS that respect the devices they run on. That means the things you expect to work, work: Spotlight finds your documents, multiple windows and Stage Manager behave the way they should, and Dark Mode looks right everywhere. None of this arrived overnight. Atlas has been built, tested, and refined across real projects and direct customer feedback; polish that only comes from iteration.
Shortcuts and Automation
Atlas integrates with the Shortcuts app, so the things you do often can happen with a tap or on a schedule — create a document, append today’s notes, add a card to a canvas, export a draft as Markdown, or batch-tag a stack of files. Whole workflows, automated, with Atlas as one step or the whole chain.
And because Siri AI taps into the same actions, you can simply ask: on iOS and macOS 27, Siri can create, find, and update your documents on your behalf.
Atlas
Write. Collect. Publish.